Corsica 5. March 1916. A national dance performance.
Students from Serbia preparing for performing a national dance.
At the begining of the First World War Ljubica, her older sister and two brothers flee from Serbia towards Greece. The French army takes them to Corsica and later to Nice and Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France. At Beaulieu-sur-Mer Ljubica attends a school for teachers where she meets Blagoje Ristić, her future husband who worked as a teacher in Marseille during the First World War. At the end of the war they moved to The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1919-1929). Ljubica and Blagoje worked as teachers in villages and towns in central Serbia. In the current year 2016, they have the following descendants three children, seven grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
Postcard
Refugees
Students from Serbia in Corsica 5. March 1916.
My grand mother Ljubica Ristić
CONTRIBUTOR
Gordana Trumbic
DATE
1916 - 1916-03-05
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
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INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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